Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-23
LOCAL gREyITIEs.

Rain fell oD the hill yesterday morning,
as well as in he valleys.
The col,re,i people of the city had
grand ball at Turner Hail last night.
The HARDER Commissioners have paid
S.. 900 in the State Treasury, as last month
receipts.
II is reported that the baseball game at
Snowflake Park next Sunday will be played
under the new rules.
There will be ball at Stems Mozart
Hall. ] street, between TwentY-nith and
Twenty sixth streets, this evening.
The Southern passengers, delayed by
washouts in the lower country, arrived by
special train about 4:30 p. NJ. yesterday.
1t was Judge Shafter, and not Colonel
Shafter, as mentioned yesterday, who met
with an accident near Agricultural Park on
Wednesday.
a benefit concert will be given Mrs. G.
NJ. Hopson at the Congregational Church
next Friday evening, by children under IA
years of age.
The farewell reception to Rev. Carroll Nj.
Davis, of ST. Paurs Church, takes place at
the residence of X. o. Crayens, 12l7 II
street, this evening.
Owing to the vastly increased business of
the County Recorders office, Miss Lulu
ellis has been added to the clerical force
of that department.
The various organizations of the inform
Rank, Knights of Pythias, returned TO their
homes yesterday, greatly pleased with their
encampment in this city.
The east-bound express was run IN two
sections last evening, and the west-bound
will arrive in two sections this morning,
travel continuing to be very heavy.
There are messages at the Western Union
Telegraph office for Mrs. Annie Robinson,
E. Flittner Sarah Nathan, +. c. Robson,
NJ. Ford, John Chappell, VIM. 0usley and
]. D. Manix.
Turtou & Knox, of this city have re-
ceived orders to resume work at Hills
Ferry, on the San Pablo and Tulare rail-
road extension, the difficulty with Miller d
Lux about the right Of way having been
settled.
The steamers Dover and San Joaquin
No. arrived from the upper Sacramento
with barges of grain yesterday, and re-
turned light. The San Joaquin No. 2 ar
rived from San Francisco with merchan-
disc, and returned with grain.
As the fair is now drawing to close, and
the bad characters who have been here will
soon take their departure for pastures new,
it may be well for citizens to take a little
extra precaution against thieves and burg
lars during the next few days.
John Leo, sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment for an assault to do great bodily
injury. and VIM. Nederhour, nine months
for grand larceny, have been taken to the
State Prison at San Quentin by Deputy
Sheriff Pendergsst, of Yolo county.
Sacramento horsemen were feeling jubi-
Inv
wins two-year-old colt, Emperor of Nor
folk, in beating the Eastern crack, Raceland,
and others at Gravesend yesterday, the
Emperor being a Sacramento bred young
ster.
ExMayor John Q. Brown has been ten
dered the position of General Manager of
the State Board of Trade, and has the mat
ter of acceptance under advisement. No
better selection for the place could have
been made, and it is to be hoped that he
will accept.
John Sansome, who was arrested at Elk
Grove few days ago by Sheriff Cunning
ham, of San Joaquin county, on suspicion
of his having been connected with recent
Placer county stage robbery, was taken up
to Auburn from this city last evening by an
officer who came for him.
Wednesday evening a number of sharpers
who had been operating in this city took
their departure for Reno, TO swindle the
verdant in attendance upon the Nevada
State Fair, by means of the shell game and
all other devices, from pitch-and- toss to
manslaughter."
at present the sandbar on the east bank
of the Sacramento, above the old mouth of
the American river, is a very busy place,
scores OF teams being engaged in hauling
sand from it to fill up low lots within the
city limits. The work of filling the hole,
nearly block in size, between the passen-
ger depotand the Pioneer Mill, is advancing
rapidly, and will be completed about the
close of the month
1t transpires, says tire Woodland MaR,
that the San Francisco Savings Union
holds trust deed to over 5000 acres of
Charles f. Reeds river farm, and other
portions of his property are mortgaged in
certain amounts to the Woodland banks. |
The party, named Grant, to whom Mr..
Reed decided his ranch, is an officer of the
Nevada Bank, which cannot have realized
any great proportion of Mr.. Reeds debt of
Sc, GOO, 600 out of the estate.
Tho only arrests made yesterday were
those CT Ben Thomas, by officer Rowe. for
battery; and Patrick Robinson and Mike
Carey, by officers McNiff and A5le, for dis
turbing the peace. The latter charge will
probably be changed to one of attempted
robbery, as they knocked down an old
man, who was under the influence ofliquor,
at Fourth and X streets, and it is believed
intended to rob him. but officer McNif,
who saw the assault, interfered too
promptly.
In the case of ]. Romirez, convicted in
COlusa county of the murder of Feadard
Asero, the Supreme Court has denied the
appeal from an order denying new trial.
The appellant claimed that the dying dec
laration of Asero was Improperly admitted
in evidence, and that during cross. examin-
atons improper questions were asked.
The Court held that the declaration was
proper evidence and that the Superior
Court committed no error in overuling OBJ
jections to the questions complained OF.
The Christi IN Church Encampment.
The annual camp meeting of the Chris
tan Church of California commences to-